I think most people who are against software patents are actually against stupid patents, "design" patents, and not against the idea that software could be an original invention that entitles its creator to protection.
Why would anyone do this? Why would I invite a stranger to live in my house for free?
Also, what kind of startup are you doing where you need incredibly high download speeds? Seriously. There is nothing you could do which would be using such large files that this is an issue and be processable on a laptop.
Also, I'm not sure I want to have my soul eaten by the giant super-consciousness.
The whole point of the story was that humans don't get to control their destiny. Aliens ultimately decided what would happen to us and it was to have our children's minds be devoured into the grand intellect or whatever.
So is NFC. The range on NFC is miniscule. I have to practically mash my phone into something to get the NFC to work. In fact, its designed that way beleive it or not. It wouldn't work well if you had 10 things at a time being detected by your phone. It's not a "push" system.
What gets me is people don't use URL shorteners, and you end up with QR codes which no one can scan in. I have a new phone with a great camera and I can't scan half the codes I see in print magazines because the dots are too tiny to even resolve in print.
QR codes would be better if the people who put them on things actually used them.
And yeah, they are better than NFC in some cases. Few technologies are wholly superior to the ones they are purported to replace. That's why people still buy typewriters. You know what the easiest way to print on a label or envelope is? With a typewriter.
It's depressing because it implies that we can't go. A lot of books which end in human elevation or utopia tell the reader that they could make it, they might live to see that. Childhood's End was explicit in that you can't go.
It's just a model of gene-expression and metabolism. Not exactly what I would call emulation. They haven't generated any hypotheses with it which have been found to be true, so of course, there is no reason to think it has anything to do with anything.
Some colleagues of mine did just this thing on a smaller scale in a different system last year, it didn't go too well and generated absurd predictions which were so assumption heavy as to be interesting only as a theoretical exercise.
It's not like they can tell you what will happen if you treated the bacteria with a drug by running a simulation.
The problem is that most of today's fields of work are hard enough that the easy stuff has been done. We don't need biologists who know biology. We need biologists who know philosophy. We need ecologists who know physics. We need geneticists who know algorithms.
If you wanna skip art history fine, but the guy next to you who did take it just might have learned something that gives him an edge.
Steve Jobs took a lot of his inspiration from caligraphy crissakes.
Being well-rounded is more important than it EVER HAS BEEN. The interesting things are at the intersections between disciplines. If you want a "core-curriculum" education, go to a vocational school. Universities are NOT HERE to train you for a job. They are here to train you to think.
Yeah, they are really gonna get rich with these free online courses. Courses taken by people they wouldn't accept as students even if they could afford it.
The reason the universities are doing it is because it raises their profile. Suddenly everyone who takes a course from MIT might think "hey we should give MIT more money, I'm gonna think about that when I vote."
This is not about money per se, its about marketing. A university's sports team is it's marketing division. Oregon is the best example. They have a sports apparel program paid for by the Nike guy. They then design apparel that their football players model on national TV. It's Nike apparel. Nike then hires this talent, the college gets name recognition in the field of apparel design, and Nike has tons of free advertising. It's a perfectly closed loop and everyone wins.
I think you're right. Mozart was not a genius, and arguably not a prodigy. He was however raised in a house of means by the greatest musical pedagogue of his age who started teaching him music before the kid could talk. I've been teaching long enough (and not very long at all) to realize that any kid could be taught to do these things if they were raised in a stable home and taught intensively for many years. This kid doing this is no more impressive to me than 13 year old Chinese kids on the pommel horse. Any kid can be turned into a highly talented person (in a more or less limited skill-set) if they are given a lifetime of intensive and focused education in a healthy and stable environment.
I've known enough scientists from enough countries to know that if there is a culture which has intellectual ossification, its not Germany. In fact, the western world has a research enterprise in place which is of much higher caliber than the rest of the world. It may be because the western world has been intellectually liberated for much longer than the rest of the world.
Another cool-looking yahoo project that I never heard about until they decided to cancel it. If only yahoo spent as much energy talking about the things they are starting as much as the things they are ending.
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I think most people who are against software patents are actually against stupid patents, "design" patents, and not against the idea that software could be an original invention that entitles its creator to protection.
Why would anyone do this? Why would I invite a stranger to live in my house for free?
Also, what kind of startup are you doing where you need incredibly high download speeds? Seriously. There is nothing you could do which would be using such large files that this is an issue and be processable on a laptop.
Please post more stories about fanciful ideas artists "hope" to do one day.
Also, post more links to people blogging about the dream they had last night.
Or something maybe someone thought of when they were stoned.
So you're all about just using more pesticides?
Which explains all the millions of deaths!
It was also incredibly expensive.
The reasons travel today sucks is because its cheaper and thus more people do it.
Also, what kind of elitist prick wishes people would "dress up" to go on a goddamn airplane? How about I wear whatever I want and you shut up?
We don't need the pretension of fancy clothes in this millennium. By these standards Jobs and Gates are both slobs.
Also, I'm not sure I want to have my soul eaten by the giant super-consciousness.
The whole point of the story was that humans don't get to control their destiny. Aliens ultimately decided what would happen to us and it was to have our children's minds be devoured into the grand intellect or whatever.
Yeah but only the kids got to evolve. People my age had to stay on earth and die in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. Or blow themselves up with nukes.
So is NFC. The range on NFC is miniscule. I have to practically mash my phone into something to get the NFC to work. In fact, its designed that way beleive it or not. It wouldn't work well if you had 10 things at a time being detected by your phone. It's not a "push" system.
It is dumb to put a QR code on a billboard.
What gets me is people don't use URL shorteners, and you end up with QR codes which no one can scan in. I have a new phone with a great camera and I can't scan half the codes I see in print magazines because the dots are too tiny to even resolve in print.
QR codes would be better if the people who put them on things actually used them.
And yeah, they are better than NFC in some cases. Few technologies are wholly superior to the ones they are purported to replace. That's why people still buy typewriters. You know what the easiest way to print on a label or envelope is? With a typewriter.
Do these kinds of missions use any kind of authentication protocols at all? I've never heard this discussed.
It's depressing because it implies that we can't go. A lot of books which end in human elevation or utopia tell the reader that they could make it, they might live to see that. Childhood's End was explicit in that you can't go.
The ending was terribly depressing, but very good.
Apple has never said anything which remotely reflects anything it might do. So why do people even bother?
It's just a model of gene-expression and metabolism. Not exactly what I would call emulation. They haven't generated any hypotheses with it which have been found to be true, so of course, there is no reason to think it has anything to do with anything.
Some colleagues of mine did just this thing on a smaller scale in a different system last year, it didn't go too well and generated absurd predictions which were so assumption heavy as to be interesting only as a theoretical exercise.
It's not like they can tell you what will happen if you treated the bacteria with a drug by running a simulation.
The problem is that most of today's fields of work are hard enough that the easy stuff has been done. We don't need biologists who know biology. We need biologists who know philosophy. We need ecologists who know physics. We need geneticists who know algorithms.
If you wanna skip art history fine, but the guy next to you who did take it just might have learned something that gives him an edge.
Steve Jobs took a lot of his inspiration from caligraphy crissakes.
Being well-rounded is more important than it EVER HAS BEEN. The interesting things are at the intersections between disciplines. If you want a "core-curriculum" education, go to a vocational school. Universities are NOT HERE to train you for a job. They are here to train you to think.
Yeah, they are really gonna get rich with these free online courses. Courses taken by people they wouldn't accept as students even if they could afford it.
The reason the universities are doing it is because it raises their profile. Suddenly everyone who takes a course from MIT might think "hey we should give MIT more money, I'm gonna think about that when I vote."
This is not about money per se, its about marketing. A university's sports team is it's marketing division. Oregon is the best example. They have a sports apparel program paid for by the Nike guy. They then design apparel that their football players model on national TV. It's Nike apparel. Nike then hires this talent, the college gets name recognition in the field of apparel design, and Nike has tons of free advertising. It's a perfectly closed loop and everyone wins.
Good luck returning it.
You do it exactly the same. Psychologists take stats pretty seriously.
You'd support them better by mailing them a $5 bill and stealing the book.
I think you're right. Mozart was not a genius, and arguably not a prodigy. He was however raised in a house of means by the greatest musical pedagogue of his age who started teaching him music before the kid could talk. I've been teaching long enough (and not very long at all) to realize that any kid could be taught to do these things if they were raised in a stable home and taught intensively for many years. This kid doing this is no more impressive to me than 13 year old Chinese kids on the pommel horse. Any kid can be turned into a highly talented person (in a more or less limited skill-set) if they are given a lifetime of intensive and focused education in a healthy and stable environment.
There are drawbacks though, as the kids immense mathematical powers came at the cost of good judgement in the area of facial hair.
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I've known enough scientists from enough countries to know that if there is a culture which has intellectual ossification, its not Germany. In fact, the western world has a research enterprise in place which is of much higher caliber than the rest of the world. It may be because the western world has been intellectually liberated for much longer than the rest of the world.
To me it seems pointless do work in any inefficient way to the ends of pride.
Another cool-looking yahoo project that I never heard about until they decided to cancel it. If only yahoo spent as much energy talking about the things they are starting as much as the things they are ending.
It's all FUD. There is no reason to believe any limit is being approached. If we need more network capacity, it will be built.